Aleksa Palladino Quotes
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.
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When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.
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For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.
